Education
Brown graduated from the Philadelphia Divinity School with his degree in divinity.
Brown graduated from the Philadelphia Divinity School with his degree in divinity.
He was ordained a priest in 1934. Brown was elected Suffragan Bishop of Albany in October 1958, to assist the incumbent, Frederick L. Barry, Bishop of Albany. He was consecrated on February 22, 1959, at Saint John"s Church, Ogdensburg, by Arthur C. Lichtenberger, Presiding Bishop.
In 1960, Barry died in a hospital after some time in ill health, and the see was left vacant.
Brown was elected and consecrated bishop in 1961. In 1963, he requested the election of a new Suffragan bishop.
Charles Bowen Persell, Junior., his only close competitor in the 1958 race, was thereafter elected. Brown travelled widely though the 19-county diocese to confirm parishioners, to ordain priests, and to preach.
He retired as Bishop of Albany in 1974, and died in 1990 at the age of 81.